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US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton insists that Washington will never send ground troops to Iraq and Syria ever again, insisting that allies on the ground will have to fight Islamic State (ISIS) while the US provides air support.


“They are not going to get ground troops,” she said. “We are not putting ground troops into Iraq ever again. And we’re not putting ground troops into Syria. We’re going to defeat ISIS without committing American ground troops,” she said in a US television interview.


US Marines have given fire support to Iraqi and Kurdish forces fighting ISIS on the Makhmour front. One Marine there was killed in an ISIS rocket attack on US firebase in March.


Following that incident, US officials admitted that the US had deployed approximately 5,000 service personnel to Iraq, far more than they had previously disclosed to the public.